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Kurzweil: Make Your Project Relevant for the Future

Most projects fail because the timing is wrong, says noted futurist Ray Kurzweil. "A lot of business and technology plans assume the world three to four years from now will be kind of like it is today, and that's not the world you need to aim at," he says.

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Ray Kurzweil

Director of Engineering, Google

Biography

Kurzweil is an author, inventor, innovator and futurist involved in computational fields such as optical character recognition, speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, he is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and futurism.

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Notable Success

Kurzweil received the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world's largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony.